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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The billion-dollar behemoth that Marvel is today rose from a comics company that failed a couple of times, rose from the ashes, went bankrupt in the 1990s, and then arose like the superhuman characters that its lead cartoonist Stan Lee helped create. GM was first a holding company when it was established in 1908 by William C.

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. In the future, companies won’t be able to exit and enter businesses as quickly as in the last decade. Xerox, which pioneered the photocopying business, lost important ground to the Japanese on price. Dilenschneider'

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. In the future, companies won’t be able to exit and enter businesses as quickly as in the last decade. Xerox, which pioneered the photocopying business, lost important ground to the Japanese on price. Copyright © Robert L.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Boards

OnlyOnce

Throughout my 20+ years of entrepreneurship , I’ve led four companies (including Bolster, where I’m a co-founder and CEO today) and served on eight boards. I’ve learned that strong boards can help propel a company forward and I’ve also witnessed how weak and ineffective boards can hold companies back.

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How Finding Your Purpose Can Build Your Business

YoungUpstarts

By implementing this objective through your company’s offering, you can add value to the community and establish the service your company provides the public. My company is an intellectual property holding company, but it ultimately aims to accelerate and regulate the utilization of regenerative technology.